How to Apply CxG to Phraseology: A Multilingual Research Project

Benigni, Valentina; Ramusino, P. Cotta; Mollica, Fabio; Schafroth, Elmar

doi:10.3844/jssp.2015.275.288

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“…14 Literature on phraseology is abundant. Summaries of different states of research, theoretical approaches, terminology and concepts can be found in Moon (1998;Burger, 2007;Ellis, 2008;Granger and Meunier, 2008;Ettinger, 2009;Benigni et al, 2015). Meunier and Granger (2008) focus on phraseology in foreign language learning and teaching.…”

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Italian Phrasemes as Constructions: How to Understand and Use Them

Schafroth¹

2015

Journal of Social Sciences

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Abstract:The present article describes the objectives and methods for a learner-centered description of Italian idioms based on the theoretical principles of Construction Grammar (CxG). The aim of the underlying research project is to develop a new way of looking at idioms, taking into account all linguistic aspects that could help to fully understand and usethem in a formally and functionally adequate manner, including situational and discursive features. By phrasemes we understand different kinds of word combinations characterized by idiomaticity and/or entrenchment. I will focus here on (a) "predicative phrasemes" (typically figurative and containing an inflected verb as a predicate, also called expressions idiomatiques verbales), (b) "phraseotemplates" (lexically open or formal idioms, in German phraseology Phraseoschablonen) and (c) "pragmatemes" (according to the French term pragmatème, i.e. pragmatically highly conventionalized phrases, also called expressions-énoncés). Idiomaticity is characterized by non compositionality of its components and unpredictability of the whole structure. Italian examples for each of the three types are: (a) Tenere il piede in due staffe ('to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds'), (b) Cosa me lo chiedi a fare? ('Why are you asking me at all?') and (c) In bocca al lupo! ('Break a leg'). In chapter 2 I will first discuss basic concepts of Construction Grammar and Cognitive Grammar. In the following part (chapter 3) I will present my ideas about CxG and its ability to create a greater awareness of how many word combinations (in this context called constructions) in a language are idiosyncratic and unpredictable and about how to use fundamental theoretical issues of usage-based CxG (mainly Goldberg, Croft) and unification-based approaches in order to describe idioms in a new holistic way. Chapter 4 will deal with some important classifications of phrasemes and their practical aptitude for phraseodidactics. Chapter 5 will finally present my idea of applying methods of Construction Grammar and Fillmore's semantics of understanding to build a new digital lexicographical format for phrasemes which is going to be called phraseoframe. This will be illustrated for the three types of phrasemes mentioned above. Each phraseme will be described by means of a simple meta language which is easy to understand and has links to prosodic, morphological, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic and discourse functional properties. As my approach is corpus based empirical evidence will be given for each of the three types of idioms by using several corpora of Italian spoken and written language (e.g., BADIP, PAISÀ and WEBBIT).

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Section: Classification Of Phrasemesmentioning

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Italian Phrasemes as Constructions: How to Understand and Use Them

Schafroth¹

2015

Journal of Social Sciences

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Body part metaphors in phraseological expressions

Ganfi

Piunno

Mereu

2022

LiC

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The paper addresses the employment of body part nouns in the creation of phraseological expressions of some European languages, a topic at the crossroads of language, cognition and culture. In particular, the contrastive analysis explores the common linguistic representation of meanings through body part metaphorical expressions in Italian, French, Spanish and English. While several efforts to gauge the existence of a “European linguistic type” (cf. Haspelmath, 2001) have been largely devoted to the study of grammatical structures, a systematic account of the lexical component of the major European languages has not been attempted yet. Among the lexical units, phraseological expressions (e.g. compounds, multiword units, idiomatic expressions, as well as light verb and light noun constructions) represent a relevant ground to inquire into, since they are the most transparent and authentic vehicle of common ideas and experiences gradually rooted in European communicative realities.

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Конструкции с опорным глаголом в русском и итальянском языках / Support Verb Constructions. A Russian-Italian Contrastive Analysis

Maiko

2022

Biblioteca Di Studi Slavistici

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The monograph focuses on a special type of collocations–Support, or Light, Verb Constructions (SVCs). SVCs consist of a semantically reduced verb together with a noun (as the direct object or embedded in a prepositional phrase) that conveys core lexical meaning to the combination. SVCs often vary cross-linguistically, with languages using different strategies to conceptualize the same denotative situations. This study in line with the principles of the Integrated Contrastive Model, aims firstly to offer a corpus-driven contrastive cognitive-semantic description of SVCs in Russian and Italian based on the Construction Grammar model; and secondly to conduct a Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis of the use of Russian SVCs by Italian-speaking students. The findings of this study, in addition to its theoretical significance, may be useful in teaching Russian as a foreign language and could be of interest for lexicography.

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How to Apply CxG to Phraseology: A Multilingual Research Project

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Italian Phrasemes as Constructions: How to Understand and Use Them

Italian Phrasemes as Constructions: How to Understand and Use Them

Body part metaphors in phraseological expressions

Конструкции с опорным глаголом в русском и итальянском языках / Support Verb Constructions. A Russian-Italian Contrastive Analysis

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